San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1887-04-25
EDITORIAL BREVITIEs.

circus was the week hlter Jumoo "ue
killed.
The attorney general is authority for
the statement that your prohibition
ballots next August may be either writ
ten or printed. The prohibition ticket
will not cut much figure In this part OF
Texas, but will follow suit with the
others.
POSTMASTER WILLIAMS, Of Cope, Indi-
ana, resigns because his pay is made
auate. His March salary was 40 cents.
This 10 one of the offices for which the
democratic party is suffering because
Cleveland did not turn the republican
incumbent out.
The Day intimates that the Austin
Statesman would do well to advertise
for that lost MeGregor railroad. and
promises that when the roundup is
made that Waco will bid for the north
ern terminus.
The Anti-home rulers in the British
parliament are so fearful Of any acci-
dent to the representatives OF their con-
stituencies, that they take the lie from
the fiery Irish land leaguers with perfect
equsnimity.
The moisture has struck West Texas
and the report comes OF full streams and
ground too wet to pillow. This will re-
vive the hopes OF stOckmen and farmers,
and the dry lands will take new hold
on life.
GROVER has made virtue efnecessity
and will not crawl into his opera box
through that little side door. Mrs.
Cleveland vetoed that proceeding. She
understands the glory OF a public pas
sage to the administration box In all the
beauty OF full'dress too well to fOrego the
pleasure.
The scientists OF America are unmer-
cifully scoring the Texas long horns
who prevented the passage OF the geo
logical survey bill. "The New South"
also. in Its chapter on Texas, makes
dead set at that blunder Of the legisa-
ture and gives 1t a half-page Of vigorous
condemnation.
THE anti-prohibitiOnists Of San Anto-
Mo have put themselves into harness
and will be heard from along the trail
between now and next August South
ern Texas is more than safe for anti-prO-
hibition, but 1t will take large MAORI
ty to overcome the vote for prohibition
that North Texas fanatics will roll uD.
Prohibition will set back this state for
years.
Gov. HILL will soon find himself con-
fronted by another high license bill. 1t
ia not the intention of New York repub-
licans to permit free trade in whiskey
and so put a weapon in the hands of the
prohibitionists. High license and good
regulations will kill prohibition at
tempts, and nothing else will.
The New York World has done an act
of journalistic justice In discharging the
Washington Ananias who invented tine
lie about Senator Cullom attempting TO
dead head his horses and carriage from
Washington to Springfield. If some
other metropolitan journals would fol-
low the Worlds example the reading
public would be little sureT OF their
facts in the sweet by and by.
The recent frosts at the east did not
materially injure the great Dele ware
peach belt. All the same, the bottom Of
that peach basket will keep climbing
towards the top, and the little green
peaches gravitate towards the bottom OF
the ever-shallowing basket.
The information has been heralded far
and wide during the past few days that
the United States has received 4,600,0
emigrants from the Old World in the
past IL years. There are in the United
States today nearly 100000 OF unem-
ployed people. Put these two facts to-
gether. Does not the situation strongly
squint In the direction of restricted
emigration.
The coal oil tank will soon take place,
on the locomotive, of the coal bin. This
will revolutioniZe the construction of
tenders and leave the fireman out in the
cold. When an accident happens, how
ever, and the oil tank bursts and is set
on fire, the engineer will not be left out
In the cold as much as he would like to
be.
THE Dallas Herald remarks that las
soon as John AhrensdOrf is hanged, a
movement concentrating the memory
and virtues of DR.. HaddOck should be
erected" Just so; but as a man is usual
ly convicted before being hanged, and
| as the jury in Ahrensdor's case stood
eleven for acquittsl and one for oOnvic-
| ton. the monument OF which the Herald
speaks is not likely to be unVailed this
season.
THAT Scan. Mag. suit against Albert
Edward Prince of Wales, arising from
his escspade at Montreal quarter OF a
| century ago, has been settled. The
| $4,000 damages claimed for breach OF
contract In relation thereto, has been
settled for 81 900, and the case Is out OF
| the lower courts. 1t was long since
heard and adjudicated in the court of q
decent public opinion and the verdict
rendered against the prince.
The public writings in Washington,
copied by type writers, are rapidly fad.
| W
be fitting end to the record of this
present administration. So mote it be
What Is there connected with Cleve.
lands person, character or public acts
that the nation would desire to rescue
from oblivion?
The Houston age pays the LIGHT ths
compliment OF disagreeing with 1t or
the Kleberg- Evans question, and re,
marks, "What the LIGHT says is right Il
nearly always wrong" AS the Age IL
one OF the hOwlers for Kleberg's re-
moval, the LIGHT is only too happy Il
be shut out OF the pale of Its endorse
ments.
RUST, OF the Dallas Mercury, whc
started his journal az q bona fide pro.
hibition paper and found il more profit
able to run it as an alliance" organ
has sold out bodily to the Alliance, anC
that thrifty organization stocks the con.
Germ at $4,000, which they bought fol
$6,500 This looks q little as though
there was too much water In the milk
can to stand the test Of the lacteometer
THE national honor is at the feet o
Grover Cleveland, and, as he has no
seen his toes for some months, the ma
tiOnal honor is lost sight Of. In thi
condition OF affairs the retaliation &C